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,or directly on the image,will bring up a larger version of the illustration.)FROM KITCHEN TO GARRET
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
FROM KITCHEN TO GARRET
HINTS FOR YOUNG HOUSEHOLDERS
BY
J. E. PANTON
SEVENTH EDITION
London
WARD & DOWNEY
12 YORK STREET, CONVENT GARDEN
1890
TO
‘PRIMROSE’ ‘MOLLIE’ ‘FRÄULEIN’ ‘CHERRY BLOSSOM’
AND MANY OTHERS
WHO FROM CORRESPONDENTS HAVE BECOME FRIENDS
THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF
THESE HINTS TO YOUNG HOUSEHOLDS
This Work is Dedicated
BY THEIR ATTACHED MENTOR AND GUIDE
THE AUTHOR
PREFACE.
In presenting this book in a completed and augmented form to the public,I think a few words of explanation are necessary, lest the way in whichthe chapters are written may lay me open to a charge of egotism.
About two years ago I began writing a series of short articles in thepages of the ‘Lady’s Pictorial’ on the absorbing subject ofhousekeeping, meaning to confine myself strictly to the house and homeof the British matron who begins life with little money and lessexperience, never thinking anything more would come of them than a meretemporary access of work for a few weeks; but I had not begun them formore than a month when, through the office of the paper, a regular andincreasing mass of correspondence began to reach me, asking questions onevery subject under the sun, from the proper management of a house andthe feeding of a baby to the fearful inquiry whether I thought a wifeshould leave her husband or not when she discovered all too late sheliked somebody else better than she did her lord and master. Since thenI have become a spe